Columbia Gorge
Fisheries and Watershed Science Conference
April 17, 2018
9:00 AM  – 4:30 PM

Presentations and abstracts can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding link, below (in Adobe .pdf format).

AGENDA

Bill Sharp, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Opening Comments

Davis Washines, Chairman, Yakama Nation General Council

Invocation

John Palmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Columbia River Cold Water Refuges Project

Rob Lothrop, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Accumulating Sediments in the Hydrosystem Reservoirs: Finding Solutions

Abstract

Kevin Greenwood, Project Director, Port of Hood River, OR

Hood River-White Salmon Interstate Bridge:
Greatest Navigational Hazard on the
Columbia-Snake River Federal Hydrosystem

Abstract

Josh Epstein, Interfluve, Inc. and Bill Sharp,
Yakama Nation Fisheries

Underwood Navigation Project: Using Dredge Sediments to Recreate Diverse Riparian Habitat,
White Salmon River Delta, WA

Margaret Neuman and Merritt Mitchell Wajeeh,
Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group

Yakima River Delta Enhancement Project: Rethinking Fish Passage and Stakeholder Engagement in the Yakima Delta

Derrek Faber, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Temperature Modelling of
Fifteenmile Creek, OR

Elaine Harvey, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Kah-miltpah Band of the Mid-Columbia River and Walaluuks Creek Name Change

Abstract

John Washines, Yakama Nation Fisheries

WAYKÁANASHPUM - Salmon People

 

Abstract

Diane Hopster, US Forest Service

The Eagle Creek Fire – A Watershed Perspective

Abstract

David Lindley, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Building a Legacy: White Creek, WA Large Woody Debris Project

Joe Lemanski, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs

A (way) Before and After Inventory of Salmonid Habitat on the Dunstan Preserve, John Day Subbasin, OR

Abstract

Tom Elliott and David Blodgett III, Yakama Nation Wildlife

Beavers on the Landscape: Using Tribal Knowledge and Science to Restore Streams and Floodplains

Ryan Gerstenberger, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs

Applying Results of an Evaluation of Different Hatchery Rearing Environments to Improve the Smolt-To-Adult Survival of Spring Chinook in the Hood River, OR

Abstract

Donella Miller, Yakama Nation Fisheries and Blaine Parker, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Yakama Nation's Sturgeon Hatchery, Restoration and Enhancement for lower-mid and mid-Columbia River Sturgeon Populations

Andy Johnsen, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs

Pacific Lamprey within Fifteenmile Creek and Hood River, OR: Updates on Distributions, Abundance, and Migrations

Abstract